Strange video issues

Q:Strange video issues

I'm having a few issues, and just wanted to see if anyone else has had this happen, or may know what causes it.

First, this could be related, I'm not sure, a few days ago I ran GPUZ and CPUZ, clicking through the tabs and realized my video card was set at Pci-Express x4 1.1. I reseated the card several times, cleaned the pci-e slot, then used my secondary pci-e power connectors, and finally it's running as it should @ x16. I'm not sure how long it was like that, the performance decrease wasn't noticeable. (I'm actually curious if it was just reporting it wrong, because my benchmarks were extremely close; Counter Strike: Source| Video Stress test 216fps at x4, then when I fixed it, 224fps. All settings maxed. This all happened two days ago, and has been fine since fixing it, but..Now, and this never happened before, and started right after that issue, sometimes when I boot up, if I right click the desktop, and select 'Refresh', the screen go's black for a moment, for about exactly 1 second, not long enough for the monitor to say (no video), but close. Once or twice it did do that though. Once yesterday while browsing this forum, it started, but this time it only did it if I tried to scroll up or down a thread. I minimized my browser, and tried to select refresh at the desktop, to see if it was the same bug, and it did it, I had to restart the machine.Then just now, today, I booted up, signed into my user, and exactly then, as it said loading, just as the desktop should appear, it did it, and it lasted a little longer, this time the monitor said no video detected, for just a moment tho. I immediately restarted, and here I am, the bug is gone.

Note: It doesn't seem to matter if it's a cold boot or not. I'm going to reinstall my video card drivers now, but somehow I don't think it will change anything, but who knows.

Any idea's? Thanks, and sry for the length!

Edit: The reason I'm leaning away from a bad Gpu, or dying rather, is the fact that Windows Vista, & Windows 7, both have an effect exactly like this, sometimes when the UAC comes up, the screen go's black, in exactly the same way, then go's to the dimmed out screen with the prompt. This is common and it's just, too similar to what's happening, I can't help but think they may be related.

I'm installing the drivers now, so it would be great to get some ideas, between now and when this happens again.

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Strange video issues

I recommend downloading and running DAP. It can help sort out any driver and firmware related issues on your system

It's worked out well for many of us in the past.

You can download it direct from this link http://downloaddap.org. (This link will open the download page of DAP so you can save a copy to your computer.)

A: Strange video issues

I can only guess at this, of course, but that certainly sounds like it could be a failing video card. But it could also be due to a under-powered or failing power supply or even bad or faulty RAM.

The symptoms are very similar to TDR events, but since you are not getting any messages (Display Driver xxx stopped responding and was recovered") then we can assume it is not that, for now.

Try the new drivers. Make sure you are doing a clean driver install when dealing with video issues.

Also test to see if advanced graphics trigger the events by changing the desktop from an Aero theme to one of the basic themes. When I refresh my desktop it is nearly instantaneous - I can barely see the flash. Your video is dogging down to perform that simple task.

Also, look in your Event Viewer to see if there are any Critical Errors or Warnings that might point you in the right direction.

When my machine comes up the display flash to black occasionally and not everything on the screen displays when it is up (for example, I can see the login area, but not the box to type into) there are also stray lines on the screen. I thought it was a hardware problem. However, when I boot safe mode, everything works fine.

I've tried installing the latest drivers from Nvidia (the video card is an MX4 series) and have also reinstalled the OS. Neither of which worked.

I'm fairly confident this is a hardware issue, but I don't know which piece of hardware is the problem. Does anyone know for certain if this sounds more like a video card issue, a motherboard issue, or something entirely different. I do not have an extra video card to plug in though I may go that route to avoid having to replace the motherboard unnecessarily. Thoughts?

A:Very strange display issues...video card, motherboard, OS?

if you can get into safe mode easily and not regular, it would be a software issue
do you have any restore points that you can use and go back to a previous time when things worked well

Okay, so I've been having some annoying issues on my computer, nothing serious yet but some are concerning. Feel free to ask for more info if needed.

Issue 1: I've had some jerkiness/lag and loading issues for some of the games I play, particularly Blizzard games (all of which should be well within system specs). The prime examples:

--> When I play Overwatch, sometimes character models/audio/sprays/projectiles take FOREVER to load for the first game I play after launching the program. All player models are essentially invisible, including my own (don't see the character's weapon or even HUD), and if I fire my weapon while invisible the map will react (breakable objects break), but all of the effects are invisible (if I fire a rocket, for instance, the rocket and explosion are invisible). I can still see usernames above allied players, but enemies are completely invisible. Models load at different rates (so one hero's model might load after a few seconds while the rest take minutes, for instance), any sprays just appear as the default spray (if they appear at all), and voice lines don't work. This has lasted for an entire round before, and when that happens the "play of the game" clip will often have invisible characters in it, even if they've loaded fully by the end of the round. Additionally, even once most/all assets are loaded, if I die and respawn there is a period (several seconds) where the screen is completely black even though my character is ... Read more

I'm not exactly new to computers, but I'm completely at a loss here with what to do. I boot up, and sometimes it won't let me open hardly any programs, and won't register if I try them from the start menu, yet they show them as running in the processes in task manager. Other times almost everything works fine (seems like the only thing not wanting to work at those times is Windows Live Messenger). Also I ctrl+alt+del sometimes and it says it can't open the menu, and I've had to post the run command directly to my desktop to try and run certain things manually. I'm running a 64bit win 7 OS and I've recently fixed a bunch of registries with the newest TrendMicro Titanium max security, and that's helped out quite a bit, but I just can't seem to figure out what is going on with it, I've ran just about every scan possible, and haven't found any viruses, spyware, etc... Sooo... I'm hoping this HJT log will hold some kind of valuable information if anybody could help me please =).

I'd also like to add that the only reason I removed MWB was because trendmicro made me lol, but before I did I ran the scans with AVG, MWB, both up to date, and even ran the TM scan and still nothing as far as malware goes, I generally don't get much malware, I'm pretty safe with my browsing and downloads, I get the occasional adware or spyware every few months or so, but that's about it.

Recently FF upgraded to latest version 23.0I didn't have any probs even after that either.

Few days ago, I was performing an bank transaction, all of a sudden I got warning msg Java Deployment Toolkit is unsafe or something on those terms near the navbar on the page popping up & the address bar was showing unsafe icon, so I selected the option to Never Activate in Add-Ons for Java Deployment Kit, closed FF & restarted FF with fresh windows.

Once again I went into bank transactions, it didn't throw me any errors but when I logged into my Online Bank Account, it didn't show any warning or anything but stated due to Java being disabled, it can't show files related to it, it didn't matter for me, as I just logged on to check my balance.

Now, I encountered something really strange. Because of my work, I have to fill lots of online forms, which usually get stored in the drop down boxes in the Text Boxes on forms, just like the way "Thread title" stores our previous opened topic titles. Now, for certain boxes I see the entries to be showing up twice. For example, if an entry should show email address, assuming my email id is - [email protected], it shows up twice in the drop down boxes, I didn't know what's the reason behind this.

One more important change I noticed is ... when I enter any particular field in CAPS on text boxes, it doesn't get stored in the text box history. I'm not sure if 23.0 was released in such fashion or something else is messing this one ... Read more

A:Strange issues with FF

The same thing happens with me. Version 23. Once I enter a word in a text field the next time I start to type the same word I see it twice in the dropdown selection.

Friends system ( XP home)had a couple typical antivir 2011 type infections, got those to stop popping up, no proxies enabled. ( in IE or firefox) Have run MSSE and malwarebytes both clean.Right now, no problem connecting to the internet ( expect windows update) but when he (I) try to update MSSE it fails with error:Virus and Spyware definitions update failedSecurity essentials could not check for spyware or virus definitions update to to an internet or network connectivity issue.click help for more information about this problem( nothing there helped) Error code: 0x80072efeError description, Security Essentials couldn't install the definition update, please try again later

and also the machine gives a "internet explorer cannot display this page" error, when i "diagnose problem, it says that it could not find an issue.I ran the microsoft fixit to reset the host file, restarted, same issue.

everything works though he describes an issue, when ge visits the Chicago sun times sports section he says the machine almost always goes in to "high gear" and some sort of adserver(what i interpret as such form his description of what appears in the status bar) is trying but failing to load ads. after he closes down the browser in a minute of two it stops.

Whats the next step?

A:Strange issues

TDSSkiller removed something, no log, malwarebytes found HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\WhiteSmokeTranslator (PUP.WhiteSmoke) -> Quarantined and deleted successfully. was then able to update MSSE. MSSE then found and removedTrojan:win32/Alureon.DXandTrajoandDwnloader:Java/Openconnection.JSystem is running better, pages load faster at Chicago Trib(not sun times), though come to find out all pages were having loading issues.Still worried about what may be present.I am helping the friend remotely using teamviewer

The computer that this refers to has been my main production computer for the past 10 months with no hardware issues. It has run solidly with Vista SP1 x64, Vista SP2 64. For production, I have replaced it with another machine and this has become my test production machine.

All standard bios settings except as required to get RAM to run at rated speed and clocks (manually changed multiplier, and voltage - bios set timings). Otherwise no overclock.

Installed and ran 7100 x64 and then 7201 x64. Clean installs. Both ran without problems (except for a few bugs).

I then did a clean install of 7229 x64. Installed all my apps and everything seemed to work so I assumed the system was working.

I then had the idea to add 2 more sticks of RAM (Crucial 2G (2x1G) DDR2 5-5-5-18 @2.1v) to bring me to a total of 6G. Note these were removed from a thrid system when I upgraded it. The had worked flawlessly in this system for 2 years at the same timings and voltages).

As I am aware that mixing RAM has been known to cause problems, I tested. I ran memtest 86+ for 12 hours... no problem. I ran OCCT for 6 hours and prime 95 for 6 hours. All without problems.

I assumed that I was good to go.

At first, it seemed that way. I noticed big speed improvements in Photoshop and Premiere Pro CS4. Everything seemed to be okay. ... Read more

A:Strange RAM issues

The causes of BSOD's are elusive. You've got issues at rest and only with extra RAM installed - but the RAM tests good.

I'd suggest underclocking the RAM to 800 mHz to see if that improves stability.You can also disable the changing voltages to see if that has any effect.Also, check your BIOS version against the versions available from Gigabyte. In particular, read the release notes to see if there are memory issues addressed there.

For some reason my computer has been acting a bit strange. I cannot switch users because whenever I try, my system beeps and freezes. In addition, I cannot use system restore because every time I try, it says "Restoration Incomplete" and that my computer cannot be restored to a previous point.

Can someone help me?

A:Strange Issues?

It is possible that malware is causing the problems. Best to eliminate that as a cause first. Suggest you do scans with whatever antispyware and antivirus you have installed on your computer. Here are two more.Install Super Antispyware. Run it in safe mode. Allow it to quarantine whatever it finds. http://www.superantispyware.com/Run the online scan for Bit Defender in normal mode. Allow it to quarantine whatever it finds.http://www.bitdefender.com/scan8/ie.htmlPost a Hijack This log in the Hijack This Forum by following the directions in the link below if the programs above have not removed ALL malware. DO NOT post the log in this forum.http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/forums/t/34773/preparation-guide-for-use-before-using-malware-removal-tools-and-requesting-help/ --------------------------------------------------------------------------------Getting into Windows Safe Modehttp://www.computerhope.com/issues/chsafe.htm(pre-Vista OS's)

All of a sudden my Dell laptop (just over a year old, go figure as soon as the warranty expires it gives me problems) has started acting funny. Here's some of the issues that started happening all of a sudden

-It runs super slow at times and freezes up, svchost.exe seems to be taking a lot of resources up when that's happening-The memory card reader doesn't work. Windows makes the noise that a new device has been recognized when I put one in, but it never shows up in My Computer.-Both Firefox and IE aren't loading some sites. I'm connected to the internet and some sites load just fine and others never seem to load- and it's not that the site is down. My Google customized homepage will load, but I can't do any searches (either from the page or from the search tool bar in both IE and Firefox), weather.com won't load- and the list seems to grow.

My first thought was I have some type of spyware even though I'm very good about not downloading stuff so I ran a ad-aware scan and it came up with nothing. I also ran a hijackthis scan and everything was normal there too.

Any thoughts on what's causing any of these issues or how I can fix them?

I've recently moved and when I set up my computer again, my USB ports are not working. Well, not working isn't necessarily true...they only recognize one of my USB devices (Web Cam). I have 4 ports, 2 in the front and 2 in the back. Unfortunately, they are 1.1 ports, but I've never had any issues with them before. Neither of the 4 ports recognize my wireless gamepad (Logitech Wingman), 2 USB Hubs (1 which was purchased last week), Media Card reader and MP3 player. Whenever I plug into a port I don't get the standard Windows chime that says Windows has detected a new device. I do get the chime with the web cam.

Some specs:Dell Dimension 82002GHz Pentium 4Windows XP Home SP2

In the device manager, the 2 rear USB ports (Intel 8281BA\BAM USB Universal Host Controller - 2442 and 2444) are shown as well as their corresponding USB Root Hubs. The 2 front ports are not shown though. I assume that they used to show up, but I can't remember. Anyway, there are no issues with the rear ports in the device manager.

The one device that does work (the web cam) works in all four ports, so they are all powered.

I have uninstalled the devices mentioned in previous threads in this forum in device manager and rebooted twice. Nothing happens. I have checked my BIOS and USB is enabled.

I can understand if one USB device just stopped working, but for 5 devices to not be recognized (one that was just purchased!) has baffled me to no end.

Any ideas?

A:Strange USB Issues

You're sure that the devices actually work? Have you tried them on other computers? Did you have to install any drivers with your hardware before you moved? If yes, have you tried re-installing them? Are your devices usb 1.1 or 2.0?

All of a sudden my Dell laptop (just over a year old, go figure) has started acting funny. Here's some of the issues that started happening all of a sudden

-It runs super slow at times and freezing up, svchost.exe seems to be taking a lot of resources up when that's happening
-The memory card reader doesn't work. It makes the noise that a new device has been recognized when I put one it, but it never shows up in My Computer.

-Both firefox and IE aren't loading some sites. I'm connected to the internet and some sites load just fine and others never seem to load- and it's not that the site is down. The list of sites I can't access I'm starting to discover is big, and which sites can be access and which ones can't doesn't seem to follow any pattern- I can access google & gmail, but it won't perform a search (either from the page or from the search toolbar in both IE and firefox). I can access and log into my banking sites, ebay, and other random sites (some secure, some not). But I can't access weather.com, the Neosmart forums, the Dell community forums, dell.com, and others. I can access facebook.com, but I can't log on.

My first thought was I have some type of spyware even though I'm very good about not downloading stuff so I ran a ad-aware scan and it came up with nothing. I also ran a hijackthis scan and everything was normal there too.

I'd been noticing recently that some windows processes in task manager are using what seemed like a large amount of memory.... Read more

A:Strange issues

This morning I was checking out some of the processes on my laptop and comparing them to my desktop. Svchost was going way up (made it up to like 120,000 kb) and then the computer started freezing. I had to leave for work and didn't have time to open up Process explorer or anything to get a more detailed report. At the time I was running McAffee (it was scanning for viruses), Windows Defender, Word, and I'd just launched Firefox, but it hadn't loaded yet. Like I said, I couldn't get to see what specific service svchost was using, but I'm guessing it was probably dcom service process launcher since that was the one highlighted in Process Explorer yesterday. When I get home today I guess I'll find out what happens I leave the computer be for a bit, if it finishes whatever it was doing and fixes itself, or if it's still frozen/acting super slow.

Got a frustrating problem and nothing seems to work but first will give you a bit of specs first

I am running 32-bit Vista, on a AMD Phenom x4 with a Gigabyte M750SLI-DS4 motherboard, with 2 gig of DDR2 and 500Gb Hdd.

However, Vista isn't detecting neither my psp nor my 32gig iPod Touch through the USB ports. The PSP comes up with an unknown device message when I plug it in, but the iPod doesn't register a thing. However, if I plug the iPod into the firewire port on the motherboard, it does charge up but still not detected at all.

I have tried uninstalling and installing iTunes various times, removing everything and anything related to it every single time, which, may I add, is not fun. I have also formatted, reinstalled and set up Vista about 5 times now but nothing.

I have checked my bios and it is up to date as well.

Any help would be great as right now have got two expensive paperweights sitting next to me.

Thanks in advance.

A:Strange USB issues

This would tend to indicate that the motherboard chipset drivers have not been installed.

I have had issues with my computer for over a year, when in christmas of 2015 after adding ram I had boot issues. Long story short, over a year later I have replaced my power supply, tried many ram configurations and am almost definite the problem is motherboard based. Although my computer often operates totally normally, sometimes strange problems occur. When booting up, I often can't login, as when I try, for whatever reason, almost no system files can be found, including all of my hard drive's files and most of the windows files on my ssd. Except some files for programs like skype, which cause error messages about some different programs that can't open to pop up. Only my Recycle bin appears on my desktop. Strangely, I can log on usually if I wait about 20 minutes on the log in screen without actually logging on. Every other part of my system seems fine, but strange errors occur almost always on boot. Recently I have began to have problems occur whilst my pc is logged in. Usually, I get lots of lag and stutter, then my pc claims that my hard drive has disconnected. It is possible that my motherboard was damaged by static electricity when I put the new ram in over a year ago, as I had had it and it functioned fine for about 5 months. Sometimes when turning of my computer, I get an error message about some referenced memory which could not be written. Any help would be appreciated as my knowledge on motherboards is minimal, other than that needed to build a pc... Read more

ok this was all working fine before i did a system recovery now it isnt working...
no matter what kind of media file it "skips after every 5 sec or so,
doesnt matter what program i use, movies, mediaplayer videos, itunes songs, or even youtube videos....everything was working finr now im at my wits end trying to figure this out.... im about to give up and buy a new laptop....

things i have done....
installed the k-lite mega codec pack
up dated all drivers from the hp site...
tried different media players
tried disablying my antivirus

Guys I need your help because my pc is driving me nuts... I will try and explain the issue as easy as possible..

Sometimes my pc wont start at all.. When my pc is switched on for a prolonged period of time lets say 24 hrs it starts to freeze... Browser gets unresonspive etc so im forced to hold the power button and shut the pc down.. When I try to switch it on again it simply wont start like no power is going trough.. I tried so many things.. I checked all connections to make sure they are not loose.. Removed and re adjusted the Ram, reconnected all power connecttions whatever I could do in my little knowlege I have tried.. It will then stay like that and then it switches on after some time.. Sometimes it takes an hour sometimes it takes a day.. I sent my PSU for testing and it came back with no fault.. It happend like 10 times already.. Sometimes it happens also when the PC is in sleep mode.. It sleeps and doesnt start.. This is something I cannot understand at all.. My hardware are as follows

I run Windows XP on a Macbook. I recently had a problem with my sound. When I turn on my computer, the Windows sound goes off. This is after I turned it off on Windows and I think I deleted the sound file for it.Also, the speakers inside the computer no longer work. I do get sound though when I plug in speakers/headphones.

How do I fix this? It seems like two problems, but they seem connected somehow. Could it possibly do with my friends using the Mac side of the partition recently? I never touch that side and it seemed to have started when they went on the Mac side.

Anybody having issues where IE11 makes your screen flicker black or seems to be using a lot of CPU power?

For some strange reason IE11 has been acting strange - either causing screen flickering, causing high CPU usage, or losing focus. And what I mean by losing focus - yesterday where posting here, I was trying to link a word by clicking the link icon (blue globe), and it simply wouldn't work. Had to manually link the sentence. Anyway closing out of IE and re-opening it fixed the issue. BTW this isn't the first time this happened this week.

So I posted a thread not to long ago, but the guy who was helping me out seemed to have left i havent gotten a respone back for a few days now. My issue is that after installing windows two programs seem to be taking up almost all of my network and worsening my already garbage ping. System and svchost.exe localnetworkandnoimpersonation are the things that seem to be jumping the most. I really don't feel comfortable messing with something that is called "system" and any of the svchost files. Is there anything i can do to fix this issue? I just built this computer not even 2 months ago and I am very worried that i already have some sort of virus. I've done scans from norton, malwarebytes, and wisecare 365 and there has been nothing thats shown up. everytime i get warned that a file is even the least bit dangerous I quarantine and remove it.

So I am really not sure where to start with this but I Have tried everything and this still keeps happening The computers I am talking about consistists of 5 pc desktop computers 2 PC laptops 4 mac minis (2 newer versions 2 power PC Mac minis) 2 time capsules with built in airports and one Western Digital My book live{ that crashed right around when this happened} 1 mac book pro and one powerbook g4. About two months ago some strange things started happening on my computers. It all started with small changes like files or folders going missing or not where i placed/saved them, locked out of user accounts screen resoultion changes when it feels like something is taking over my computer. Computers acting up all the time like not responding like they they have a mind of there own. Then things started to get ever more wierd like files that were on one computer were all of a sudden on another computer that they should not be on. Strange remote disks on the Mac side that is locked. Files/folders that were once ?unlock are now locked and cannot access them. Computers crashing all the time. I even tried to fix this problem by going out and buying new computers for the business and over night what was once a fresh brand new computer had a full hard drive (500GB) of data over night out of no where! only one kind of data and would not let you open it. Everything was a shortcut instead of a direct path and files are being downloaded as binanry files. Weird folders from 1970. Times and da... Read more

A:Very strange computer issues HELP

Hi and welcome,It all sounds very peculiar as you say. I might be barking up the wrong tree but some info that might help - how are these machines networked?- what levels of access do your colleagues/employees have?- does anyone have remote access?- any disgruntled ex-employees/colleagues?- do you have robust backup procedures & safeguards in place?

Here's the story, I recently got the inkling to defrag my C drive, as I hadn't done it in a few months. I go to defragment it (I had far more than 15% free space) and it kept giving me the error message "Disk Defragmenter could not start" whether I clicked Analyze or Defragment.

I ran a virusscan and ran RegistryFix before I did any research. Nothing major on the virusscan, RegistryFix showed several registry issues which were resolved, but didn't change anything regarding the defragmentor.

I found a freeware defragmenting app and it had similar issues, in this case It scanned the drive and two seconds later it said "Defragmentation complete"

After this, I ran the Check disk application under the properties of my C drive, and it gives me the message "Unable to complete disk check." This is when I started to get worried and do some thorough research. A common thing I saw to do was to run CHKDISK via the command prompt with the /r parameter. I did so, and it gave the already expected answer of needing to run the next time the computer reboots.

I did this, and this is where it gets strange... CHKDISK read that my C drive is a RAW filesystem. But upon startup, my C drive works just fine and the properties show it as an NTFS filesystem.

I downloaded the trial of Zero Assumption Recovery, and it didn't detect my C drive as viable for recovery. Regardless, it probably didn't matter, as I can still read and write to the driv... Read more

Sorry if this gets a little long but I'm at a total loss as to what is happening.

I had the same setup for years without a problem, then my router went bad so I got a new one. Everything was fine for about 3 months and then all of the sudden last week my download speed on my desktop computer got really slow. No issues with upload speed only download.

Usually my download speed is between 15-20Mbps but now it's under 1Mbps. I have 2 laptops, one of which is in the same room, and neither of them has a problem. I've gone through all of the channels on the router and changed other settings and nothing worked. I moved the router with no success. I've tried different cables and I bought a new router and new adapter for the desktop and I still have slow speed. Now I'm back to what I had to begin with and of course I still have very slow speed. I even called the ISP just cover all the bases and make sure there weren't any problems on their end.

There is no problem with signal strength and the network speed usually stays at 54Mbps but never drops below 36Mbps when I'm connected.

On the problem computer I have Windows 7 and Vista both installed and the problem is the same no matter what OS I'm in. The laptops I use have Vista and XP, and like I said before there is no issue with them.

My router is a Linksys WRT54GS2 and the adapter I'm using now is a Linksys WUSB54GS v.2. I also tried a WUSB54GC adapter which didn't help.

Okay, I've been having some interesting boot issues with my current Windows 7 machine. If I restart my machine it can boot up fine. If I turn the machine off for a certain amount of time (4+ hours) it has issues booting up again. I get bsods like crazy claiming that it's the memory.

When this happens (turning on the computer after 4+ hours) I'll run Memtest86+ for around 2-3 hours. There will be no errors. I will then restart and boot the machine up and BAM windows will load with no issues.

It's as if my memory needs to be "warmed up" and it can't boot from a cold boot. Does anyone have any idea what the issue could be? Is it simply the memory?

A:Strange boot issues

from the sound of it you could be dead on, but to verify this, is your computer in an abnormally cold room such as a basement?

I strongly suspect that I have a virus of some sort. I keep getting random strange issues with my browsers sort of like re-directs etc,. It's happening with any browser. I have attached my hijack this log. I am running Symantec Norton Internet Security 2010. I have also performed full scans with MalwareBytes. Thanks for any help.

A:Win 7 Strange Browser Issues

Hello and Welcome to the forums! My name is Gringo and I'll be glad to help you with your computer problems. Somethings to remember while we are working together.Do not run any other tool untill instructed to do so!Please Do not Attach logs or put in code boxes.Tell me about any problems that have occurred during the fix.Tell me of any other symptoms you may be having as these can help also.Do not run anything while running a fix.We apologize for the delay in responding to your request for help. Here at Bleeping Computer we get overwhelmed at times, and we are trying our best to keep up. Please note that your topic was not intentionally overlooked. Our mission is to help everyone in need, but sometimes it takes just a little longer to get to every request for help. No one is ignored here.Click on the Watch Topic Button and select Immediate Notification and click on proceed, this will help you to get notified faster when I have replied and make the cleaning process faster.In order for me to see the status of the infection I will need a new set of logs to start with.Please print out or make a copy in notpad of any instructions given, as sometimes it is necessary to go offline and you will lose access to them.DeFogger: Please download DeFogger to your desktop.

Double click DeFogger to run the tool. The application window will appear Click the Disable button to disable your CD Emulation drivers Click Yes to continue A 'Finished!' message will ap... Read more

Whenever I stream video on this laptop, I have to move the mouse/trackpad around for the bar to continue loading. Originally I thought this was just graphical and it was actually loading, just not refreshing the bar. No, that is not the case.

It will play until it hits the ending of the bar, and won't continue until I move the mouse to make the bar load.

I'm not sure if I'm explaining it the best way though. I like to think of it like the following: It's like winding up a toy. A very annoying toy.

Any other specs can be provided upon request. I would not describe myself as particularly excellent with computers, however neither would I be a complete novice. Now, to the problem at hand:

Playing certain games seems to cause a major issue with the graphics on my pc. During play, the screen will go blank, and the message saying the exe has crashed will appear. Fine. But if I then use the computer to do anything else, like browse the internet, all many of wierd and wonderful things occur. Certain parts of the page will go blank, and reappear seconds later having been inflated to twice their normal size. Or green. Or fuzzy. If I try to run the game again, it will crash instantly. Videos become unwatchable and the only thing the pc would be good for is staring at my desktop. Rebooting solves the issue, and all appears well again. However, when I start the game up again, the problem will occur again. Sometimes it will be seconds after starting the game, other times it can be anywhere up to an hour.

Now for the strange part: This problem only occurs on certain games, with seemingly no real correlation between which ones. Dying Light, for example, can be run at a very good spec and is perfectly stable ... Read more

A:Strange Graphics issues...

My initial thoughts would be either a heat issue, power issue or drivers. However, that is not guaranteed.

Can you profide the make and model of the motherboard (including revision number), RAM (make, model, amount and how many sticks etc), Power Supply (make, model and rated wattage), what operating system are you using an dis it 32 or 64bit etc. The more info the better.

Have you ever cleaned out the inside of the case to remove dust from the heatsinks and fans etc?

Now, the issue I've been having is very peculiar. When I first powered the thing up, it turned on, then shut off. Then it booted back up again and loaded like nothing happened. I thought this was a feature of the mobo so I passed it off as nothing. I configured the BIOS, no overclocking or nothing of the sort, just made sure all my parts were turned on and recognized, then I installed Windows XP... I think this is the standard steps of all PC builders. After running Windows Update, and installing the new forceware drivers for my video card (169.21), and well, instead of running benchmarks like some people would... I decided to immediately load up a bunch of new games that I've been dying to play on my PC. I installed first, a bunch of the 8800 nVIDIA demos, the... Read more

They couldn't figure this out at techsupportforum.com so this may be a challenge for ya!

First of all, here is a link to what happened at their site: W32.Blaster.Worm -- Missing Boot Manager - Tech Support Forum

As a recap of what's going on, Windows started stalling after boot up, and during the login screen at bootup. Startup Repair said that the bootmanager was missing. Trying bootrec through Recovery Console didn't seem to help. The computer would randomly boot into Windows and randomly stall at the glowing orbs. When it did boot completely, I had no network connectivity. The system would stall when I would do any of the following: right click on network icon and click Troubleshoot, try to Diagnose network problems, uninstalling and then reinstalling network device drivers (would stall when starting to reinstall them automatically).

When I ran chkdsk d: /f /r at recovery console (C: is normally my boot drive, but typing C: in the recovery console says that the drive is corrupt, I think my F: is actually the first drive in the hardware, which is why it says this), it said that the Master File Table had a corrupted BITMAP (it was allocated as empty but contained information, I think), and supposedly fixed it successfully. When I re-ran chkdsk, there were no issues. A restart did not solve the problem.

I booted in Safe Mode and ran sfc /scannow through an elevated command prompt but it said "Windows Resource Protection did not find any integrity viol... Read more

A:Strange boot issues

Welcome to the windows 7 forums.

The only suggestion that I have is what you already know, boot the recovery windows 7 disk and restore your image from the external device.

After playing a low-res game, a friend of mine who uses Windows Vista ran into resolution issues. After several attempts at changing the resolution to 1024x768, the screen still appears, as she describes "magnified." For example, the AIM windows at the smallest size it allows you to shrink them to, still takes up a good fifth of the screen because the (resolution or something, I've never seen anything quite like this) is so high. It's not precisely a resolution problem, or I would have been able to fix it quickly. Icons are all properly sized, etc., but it's still as she describes "like a magnifying glass" is on the screen. I'm not physically at the computer so I can't very well examine it aside from screenshots here and there, so I am unable to ascertain what the problem is with 100% certainty. Any suggestions?

Hey, I have been Googling and surfing the forums and can't seem to find a similar issue.

Basically, I have a madcatz v7 gaming keyboard and its great, I like typing on it and the lighting effects though a gimmick are pretty cool.

It has been solidly working for the past year but all of the sudden a family member was using it the other day and they told me it suddenly stopped working.

When I came to check sure enough it didnt work either at boot for the bios or in windows. I tried another USB port and uninstalling the drivers and reinstalling them numerous times including removing them from the registry. As i was also planning on it i preformed a system reformat after a physical component clean and still no joy. thinking maybe its my OS or USB ports I tried it in my laptop and still nothing.

One thing i did notice however is that the media keys, volume, song control still work. But the macro keys and normal qwerty typing do not work.

I am basically at a loss as to what is happening and thought id posts for any ideas.

At random times, one of the following will occur:One speaker will get very loud and the other very quiet. Sometimes, one speaker cuts out entirely and all the sound outputs from one speaker. The subwoofer seems to continue functioning normally.My subwoofer will get treated as a speaker while one speaker is treated like the subwoofer.My sound driver is the most recent one and was downloaded from the MSI site. I actually uninstalled it and am running using the generic Windows sound driver and I currently have no sound problems. However, this also means that I have little to no control over things like audio balance, room correction, etc.

I was wondering if someone could please help me with this. Thanks.

A:VERY strange sound issues

Mike,

That's a Realtek audio chip, I suggest downloading the latest drivers from the Realtek site.

I have a very odd issue and this happens especially at startup. I open up a program and it will run disgustingly slow but if I open another one it instantly frees up and runs smoothly. Then the next program that I opened up runs slow and so forth. It only started doing this recently and I have checked for virii, spyware, and defrag regularly. I also have about 8 gigs of system ram so this shouldn't happen.

A:Strange performance issues

Go Start>Run (Start Search in Vista), type in:msconfigClick OK (hit Enter in Vista).Click on Startup tab.Click Disable allIMPORTANT! In case of laptop, make sure, you do NOT disable any keyboard, or touchpad entries.Click Services tab.Put checkmark in Hide all Microsoft servicesClick Disable all.Click OK.Restart computer in Normal Mode.NOTE. If you use different firewall, than Windows firewall, turn Windows firewall on, just for this test, since your regular firewall won't be running.If you use Windows firewall, you're fine.Same problem?

My computer has been having some odd problems since I brought it home from my dorm in May.

Every once in a while it will stop giving me a video output. So I follow the same steps. I will first try to reset the BIOS. When that dosen't work (It usually dosen't) I will remove my video card and attempt to use the onboard Video (The onboard video usually stops working, I also noticed my built in Ethernet no longer works around this point) When I get no onboard video I remove all but one stick of RAM and try to reset the bios again. When I still yet get no video I disconnect any PCI cards, unplug all peripherals and disconnect power to them (If I havent already) I then try booting the computer with no ram, the ram card in different slots, different ram cards in different slots, resetting the bios occasionally.

Anyway usually what happens is by the time I am about to give up for no apparent reason the Mobo will start working correctly again. I will have done nothing special when this happens. My current problem is that this issue has occurred and the mobo will not resume normal operation despite all attempts.

Just wondering if any of you had any idea what may be going on. My personal opinion is that the BIOS is heavily corrupted and or that the motherboard is just flawed. It bothers me that everything else works fine during all my tests, harddrives spin and sound as though they read, CPU fan spins etc. But the the Video is just gone.

I recently lost the ability to burn cd's/dvd's. Roxio said I didn't have a supported burner (it's an NEC 1100A), so I tried the burner that's built in to XP; still no luck. I formatted and re-installed XP, but still have the same problem. I tried to upgrade the firmware with software downloaded from NEC's website, but the firmware upgrade can't find my drive. It plays cd's/dvd's ok, it just won't burn. I checked disk management to see if it's recognized and noticed that my hard drives (I have two) no longer have drive letters assigned. I was able to assign my secondary drive a letter, but not my primary drive. A few reboots later, my secondary drive lost the drive letter I assigned to it. In explorer it still shows up as d: (I had assigned q: earlier), but in disk management there's nothing. I have a Dell Diminsion 2400 and just upgraded the BIOS to A05. I have a 40GB master hard drive and a 60GB slave; a DVD ROM master and a DVD+RW slave; 512 MB RAM.

Here's what I've tried:Upgraded the BIOSFormatted and re-installedMade the DVD+RW the only drive on the secondary IDE channelUsed only one hard drive on the primary IDE channel.

I've recently built a system for my sister which seemed to be working fine while it was with me. I installed Vista Ultimate (from DVD), Mobo and network card drivers (from CD), Avast antivirus, Spybot S&D, Corel Paint Shop Pro Photo X2 and Limewire Pro (all from download), and The Lord of the Rings Online (both from CD and downloaded updates).

All was going swimmingly until she took her new system home and tried to install her Thompson 330 Speedtouch modem. Not only did the modem fail to install (the CD only contained XP drivers), but seems to have screwed her DVD drive too.

I have fixed the modem issue by downloading and installing the Vista drivers, but her DVD drive continues to have problems.

It seems to read CDs fine, but if you insert a DVD disk, Windows Explorer will freeze and no other programs can be loaded up. The only way to get connectivity back, is to eject the DVD drive.

I have checked Device Manager for any issues (none showing) and the registry to delete the upper and lower values (although I couldn't find any to delete anyway). I have also tried a system restore to a point before she tried to install her modem - still no joy.

Looking for a little help here (aren't most of us anyway?). Anyhooo, I picked up my kids computer from my ex's house. When they started it up all the display would show was 'no signal.' I brought it home and plugged it into a CRT monitor that I have and got the same thing. I opened it up and removed all the cards, cleaned it out and put it back together thinking that because it's been around a while the PCI and AGP cards might not be seated as well as when it was new. Along the way I noticed that on the hold downs on the CPU heatsink one of the corner clips was broken off. I removed the heat sink, reseated the CPU and since the one corner was broken I put the computer on it's side and set the heatsink on the CPU. Then it fired right up. I thought that maybe the heat sink was putting pressure on the CPU lopsided and maybe that was the problem. I have a Zalman heat sink on mine and I put it in their computer. If I tightened the screws down even in the slightest it wouldn't start. I might get the POST beep and then nothing. If I unscrewed the heatsink, reseated the CPU and set the heat sink on without screwing it on, the computer worked. But each time I had to reseat the CPU I would have to reset the BIOS settings. I've taken the CPU out of mine and put it in and if I tighten the heatsink I get the same issue. I'm thinking the motherboard is bad but have no way to test it. The setup is as follows:

It sounds as if the pressure on the CPU is causing the problem, maybe the pressure is mis-seeding it somehow, you might have damaged the one of the pinholes. But I'm probably not telling you nothing that you haven't already thought about. Have you tried blowing out the CPU placement pad ?

Since my mate, who happens to be a computer Guru of the house, with almost a decade can't figure out my issue, I hope you fellows can, we are about to chuck the system out the window...I have been having very strange noise like static boom poping sounds/screeching, like rubbing two cookie sheets together, we replaced "Every Piece of hardware with my mates Parts" even went out and bought a new motherboard, "Asus" switched it from msi, replaced Every cord, even the HD, and still the poping sounds precide, with every inch of it changed, Restructured, We have the computer littery out of its case built up, sitting on a static paper.

*2gigs of Ram DDR*AM2 Socket Motherboard Asus, M2v-mx SE "X" Series*Duel core AMD Anthlon x2 4400+ Processor*Creative soundcard Extreme Gamers XFI <now this is the interesting part, When I place this in my system, thats when I get the weird noise, I have exchanged the card 2 times, and my mate happens to have the same card and we even exchanged my card with his, same driver set etc, and yet the sound only happens on my pc, I Have my Cobra sound card installed right now and the issues stop, but I was hoping for a decent soundcard, and my mates pc is lower end then mine, and he has zero issues

Also My sata HD is giving me 9's Binary when I hook it up o.o

if you have any type of clue, Please before we chuck the dang thing out the local window, help

I have been building a second pc( from parts laying around) for 3d stuff and some gaming. The next day my main machine dies, no problem i will fire up the other pc. Start up the new build and it says no os, so i grab an old copy of win7 Ulitmate and do a fresh install. Can't get on the internet, drag old linux box out and download ethernet drivers and install, now internet works. Download and install Avast, Opera, Ati drivers and they all work.

Next i install Steam and Left4Dead2 and probably spent an hour or 2 playing L4d and no problems at all.
I then install 3d Coat (3d sculpting program) and when i try to run the program it does nothing.I download Media Player Classic and some random mp4 video and when i try to play the video, it starts then crashes.Some Dx9 message appears , so i install Dx9, still have the problem.Try the built in games like Freecell and Majong, and when i click on the icon, nothing happens.

Ok, i will try to open a jpg and sure enough i get "Com surrogate has stopped working" message.
I can open it in Paint however.

Well maybe it was a bad install, so today i reinstalled Win7, and this time i deleted the 450mb OEM partition,and the other 2 partions (100mb recovery and the main part). I create a new partition and the format it twice.Installed win7 again and still have the same problems. MPC and Freecell, and Windows Photo viewer still don't work.

Hi. I was wondering if any of you could help me with a problem I've been experiencing for about 3 years now. I'm running Win. 98SE on an HP Pavilion 8500 series. I'm not sure of the sound card type, as there's nothing about it in the documentation or system information program. Now, the problem is that I'll suddenly hear a blast of static and scratchy-ness coming from my speakers. This lasts for as much as 45 seconds. After it, there is no sound in the application until you close it and restart the program*. I've tried downloading drivers to try and fix it, which did nothing but prevent me from connecting to the internet (my sound card is a combination sound card and modem), and I've also tried to refitting the sound card in it's PCI slot (someone told me I had a loose sound card) which also did nothing. If someone could help me out, that'd be great.

*The only exception is Real Player and Windows Media Player, which lose all sound. You don't have to close it, just go back a few seconds.-Vroom

This in regards to a Win7 Enterprise 64b system. I've had problems installing various software packages, and it is appearing to be user-related.

When I try and install certain packages (demo for Corel Painter 11 for example), they throw up a dialog box asking if you agree to various terms. The 'bug' is that this dialog box shows up BLANK, and there is no way to interact with it, and I have to abort the install - often by using Task Manger and killing the process. This has happened for a number of install-attempts in other programs as well.

I logged in as Admin (and later as a new user with admin rights) and did the installs - and voila! - the dialog box appears as it should and the install ran fine. The Painter 11 demo ran fine as well.

When I re-log in as the original user and run the Painter 11 demo, it gets into a very squirrely mode - a blank dialog appears (after a great deal of time) and the cursor is jittering all over the screen - and I have to go to Task Manger and kill the Painter process.

It would appear there is something munged up in this user - can anybody offer any ideas on where to look? It appears whenever an app puts up the dialog box that asks if you agree with the license (or similar) this user has something wrong that won't let it run... Any clues????

=Alan R.

A:Strange User issues

Can you run the executable as an admin? Did you verify that this application is Windows 7 compatible? What about running the executable in Compatibility Mode...assuming you answered yes to my second question?

I have a very strange problem I hope someone can help with. When i go to do downloads about 50% of the time the download will scream along just fine and suddenly stop. Usually around the 80% mark, it just stops.

If a use a browser other than IE7 the download is fine, if I use a download manager the download is fine. However using IE7 the download stops dead and eventually times out.

Does anyone have an idea on what this is or how to fix it?

On a side note can someone suggest a good download manager for Vista 64 that is very transparent. I hate having extra software running.

A:Strange Download Issues

Originally Posted by Computer-Ed

I have a very strange problem I hope someone can help with. When i go to do downloads about 50% of the time the download will scream along just fine and suddenly stop. Usually around the 80% mark, it just stops.

If a use a browser other than IE7 the download is fine, if I use a download manager the download is fine. However using IE7 the download stops dead and eventually times out.

Does anyone have an idea on what this is or how to fix it?

On a side note can someone suggest a good download manager for Vista 64 that is very transparent. I hate having extra software running.

I read where others have experienced similar issues, but no solid solution has been found. Things that have been suggested:

1. Making sure you have the latest updates from Microsoft for IE2. If IE becomes unstable, you can use the reset feature under the advanced tab

1. Firefox will freeze if you try to display anything that requires Flash- I tried to reinstall Flash but when I try to install, literally nothing happens. The cursor loads for 2 seconds then nothing happened. In the task manager, I can see many different processes named "Adobe Flash Player Installer" yet I can't switch to any of them.

2. This goes with the previous problem; I literally cannot run any setup files. Seriously. I can run .exe files, although I tried downloading the media converter SUPER, Flash Player as I said, and Arcsoft Media Converter and when I try to click the install icon the cursor loads for 2 seconds and nothing happens.

3. When I try to play a video on my computer with VLC Media Player, I experience almost the same problem as above except the video does pop up after 5 minutes (seriously). Also, the movie randomly goes back to the beginning sometimes.

Any help?

A:My computer having strange issues lately...

This is apparently a problem with the latest Firefox, and happens on both Windows 8 and Windows 7. Apparently, they released a broken version. I don't seem to have the problem though.

First let me give you a run down of my hardware. I have 2 laptops and a PC. Laptop 1 is a Dell Inspiron 1521, Laptop 2 is a Compaq Pesario V6000 and the PC is a self built machine running on a socket 939 gigabyte board with a San Fransisco chip. All 3 have windows 7 Ultimate installed. I have not done any tweeking or anything like that would cause any complications and i use each of the 3 for different things. If you need more detailed information on hard drive please let me know and i will oblige.

The first and most important issue im having is that all 3 computers will not recognize that there is a blank CD in the drive. However, if i put a written cd in the drive it will display that there is something on the disk if using a burning tool, but still will not acknowledge the disk via my computer or navigation to the drive letter. But then again, it has no problem recognizing the windows CD or game CDs/DvDs. I tried to burn a copy of Ubuntu with a disk already in the drive and it ask for a blank disk (cd), when i ejected the disk and poped it back in it started the burn and burned it. I was able to restart and boot from CD bringing up the install screen (but i think somethign went wrong with the iso burn and woudl not let me boot from live disk but thats another story). Now that same disk will not be recognized again in windows. All of my machines do this.

Second issue. My PC and Laptop 2 will plug and play my external WD My Book USB drive and read and write to it with no p... Read more

so, recently, my internet connections been.. goofy. It could be one of a few things, or a combo of all of them, or, possibly none of them, but heres what ive got:

I'm rocking the Nvidia 680 LT sli mobo by the way, drivers all updated.
Connection has been in and out since a few changes have been made. Browsing the internet, more often than not, i get a few minutes of no transferring at all, no pages load, nothing happens, and all of a sudden it'll be back strong as ever. although it seems like 5 minutes on, 5 minutes off, and my PC sees nothing wrong.

1.Ever since my pops upgraded to an "N" wireless router, my internet has been extremely goofy. I'm on a land line, none of that wireless business for me (MMO's and such) and ive never had any issues before. My PC sees me having a perfect connection, but in my MMO's or even browsing the net, it sure doesn't act like it.
Point of interest, he somehow managed to set this router up.. and keep up a second router all at the same time, i didnt know this was possible, but he needed to in order to link his laptop to his home PC (owns a business). {plugged in router>switch ive no transferring at all, plugged in router>PC i have this faulty one. meanwhile my PC sees nothing wrong in either case.}

2. My internet cable now runs under my carpet, moved there around the same time as the router switch, though when i looked the cable over, i saw no hint of crushe... Read more

Hey everyone. We can't figure out what's going on here. I hooked up Brighthouse internet cable a little over three weeks ago. In the house we have 2 computers directly connected to the internet and use a router. With my computer, there is a shared network connection for a third computer (using a network adapter ethernet card). We installed the card a few days after Brighthouse was installed.

The issue is that for the last four days suddenly my computer will stop having internet. It says it IS connected to the internet, though, and says the signal strength is great. The other computers - including the one getting internet from mine through the adapter card, keeps internet when mine goes down (which doesn't make sense to us.) If my computer is shut down the other computer cannot have internet, and is dependent on my having internet, so if I can't browse you would think the other could not either.

This happens once per day the last four days, not at the same time. I check mozilla, google chrome, internet explorer, my virus program AVG update, and Adobe installer update, as well as my music app and they all say I'm NOT connected to the internet. At the bottom of my screen the world globe is there and says I AM connected.

When I go to repair and diagnose, it comes back with the following error:

cannot communicate with www.microsoft.com(65.55.12.249)

It cannot repair this way. I cannot disable and enable the connection to have it work either. The only... Read more

I've got a user's Compaq HP here connected to an LCD. Want to extend the LCD on to the LCD and make it the main. Problem is that I can extend, but the option to uncheck the laptop as the main is greyed out (have tried applying, even rebooting first to no effect). Nothing I do seems to be able to unlock it. There are no outside drivers/control tools (ex being NVidia) of any sort that I can locate. She said they had done this before, but did not know exactly how.